Life in a small south Texas town of roughly 19,000 and its environs. The other towns are less than 5,000 people nearby.

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Grocery prices!?!?

I'll say this flat out - grocery prices are getting outrageous! Even a dozen medium eggs are around $1.50, that used to be the price of a dozen extra-large. The 75% ground beef is up over $3 a pound, and it's well over $4 a pound for extra lean. Chicken is going up also - leg quarters (sprinkled with some tasty BBQ spices) used to be a dollar a pound, and now it is almost $1.40 a lb for leg quarters. Turkey thighs used to be fairly inexpensive also, now they are almost $3 a lb.

I cringe at what frozen turkey prices are going to be this Thanksgiving. I guess gone are the days of 10c a pound turkeys on special if you bought $20 or more of groceries. Even last year, the cheapest turkeys were around 60c a pound. Spiral ham has stayed about the same the past couple of years, but hopefully it has not gone up as well - the HEB Brand spiral hams usually are 2.99 a lb, but I can snag a Smithfield spiral ham for $1.98 a pound. (And they taste just as good!).

Bacon is outrageous - even the box of ends and pieces that I usually buy, because it's cheaper than buying sliced bacon.

If you have a printer, go on over to http://www.couponmom.com/ sign up, and start printing off coupons for things you need. There are also 'coupon exchanges' that cost some money (not sure how much) but they will mail you coupons. Also check manufacturer's websites for coupons, and your grocery store website for coupons and advertisements. If you time it right, you can really good some good deals. But ONLY if you were going to buy those things at the time. My husband has a whole stack of deoderants under the bathroom counter - they were on sale for $2, and I had some coupons for $2 off each...so I stocked up. But not like those CRAZY couponing people you see on TV. I picked up 4 sticks of it. Enough to last a while, figured that would save some money.

Remember how we all thought Osama Bin Laden was dead at the bottom of the sea, feeding the hagfish and sea lice? (sea lice are shrimp and crabs, FYI)

Turns out, he's alive and well, living at 911 Jihad Way, Abottabad, CA 91101! Although his occupation is listed as "deceased terrorist", he's given $ to Obama's campaign. Evidently all you need to know is a zip code for in the US (Google is most helpful for that I guess), and you too, can gin up all the phony names and addresses you want, and donate money to Team Obama. AND it will be accepted!

2 comments:

Diane:I'm glad you did a nicely comprehensive list of COSTS of grocery items...I'll tell 'ya, it's like freakin' Highway Robbery every week!Cripes, Cream of Wheat in that small-ass box is OVER $4!!!Even GRITS are damn near double the price, and coffee is plain off-the-chart!

What USED to cost us $40-$50 per week NOW is costing us between $70-$80+ buckolas!(aside from GAS, too)

And we don't splurge on crap, either...I'm the frugal coupon clipper and bargain shopper of this duo!

We were going to get a goose for t'giving, but THOSE prices are outta sight!

And that "Osama" contributer sounds a LOT like one of the "voters" I mentioned in today's (FRIDAY) post.

I swear we're no longer on the EARTH we grew up on...when did that happen?(probably while we were sleeping, on a Tuesday)

And between you, me, and the fencepost, not ALL of Bin Laden wound up at the bottom of the deep blue sea (hee,hee). (I have my sources in D.C./Quantico)Just so you know.

Grocery prices are getting bad - milk, even the cheap milk, is right at $4 a gallon here. Grits... YUK! those instant grits are good for dumping on fire ant piles, they eat the grits & explode... Give me steel-cut oats any day! and those are pricey as well.

Even dog food is getting expensive. Our dog has to have weight control food, and I'm spending roughly $1.50 a can, and he's eating a can a day.

We had a goose one year for Christmas, hubby went down the road & got one from a rice field. Was the best darn goose - wild is less fatty than the ones you buy in the grocery store.

Last year for Thanksgiving we had two types of quiche - I am not sure yet what I will be making for that - perhaps a nice curry. We eat turkey & stuff at Thanksgiving dinner at church on the Sunday before, so we get the traditional.. but we also get the .. whatever we like the best. Maybe I should order two pizzas from Giordano's in Chicago! http://www.giordanos.com/ Check out the pictures. It's amazing pizza! We ate at one in Orlando a few years back, and wow!